The surname Wang is a big surname in China, the population ranks first among many surnames, and 10 leaves fall from trees, which can always hit two surnames wang. The Wang surname mainly originates from the Ji surname, some of which originate from the sub-surname and the concubine surname, and a small number of ethnic minorities change their surnames. In ancient times, the Surname of Wang has developed into a widely prestigious surname, the most well-known of which is the Taiyuan Wang Clan, the Langya Wang Clan, and the Three Acacia Wang Clans.
Among them, the Langya Wang clan has the highest reputation and has always been known as the "first hope of China" and "the first noble family of the Middle Ages". As the first gate valve clan in ancient China, the history of the Langya Wang clan is simply a legend, although there have been several emperors who are in charge of the Eight Classics, but the Wang family still rules the world for hundreds of years, and even the emperor can only bow to the Wang family, which can be called the most cattle family in Chinese history.
If it was a rebellion by other families, I am afraid that it would have been destroyed by the emperor long ago. However, the Langya Wang clan is an exception, this branch of the Wang clan gradually rose in the Western Han Dynasty, the position of cao Wei and the Western Jin Dynasty gradually stabilized, and the family reached full victory in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, which is known in history as "the king and the horse share the world". This horse of course refers to the Sima clan of the two Jin dynasties, when Sima Yi overthrew The Cao Wei Emperor and his grandson Sima Yan established the Jin Dynasty.
At that time, there were two important figures in the Wang family: one was Wang Dao, who was afraid of his wife, and the other was Wang Dun, who was married to a princess of the Western Jin Dynasty, and Wang Dun was Wang Dao's cousin. During the Western Jin Dynasty, the two were already highly valued, but when the Western Jin Dynasty throne passed to the 2nd generation, there was a great chaos, the Jin Hui Emperor Sima Zheng was incompetent, and the government was controlled by the evil Empress Jia Nanfeng, which subsequently triggered the "Rebellion of the Eight Kings" and "Five Hu Chaos".
The Western Jin Dynasty royals fled for their lives, where to flee? Nature fled south. But it is always impossible for the dragons to be leaderless, and it is still necessary to establish a court to control the overall situation. Wang Dao thought of Sima Rui, the king of Langya, who had a good relationship with him, sima Rui had no prestige in the imperial family in the past, and the family clan looked down on him, but Wang Dao and Wang Dun supported Sima Rui, and in 318 AD, Sima Rui built the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
The two brothers Wang Dun and Wang Dao can be said to be the founding heroes of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, so at that time, 70% of the people in the dynasty were either from the Langya Wang clan or had close relations with the Langya Wang clan, which gradually caused the dissatisfaction of Emperor Sima Rui. Sitting on the emperor's throne, he was most afraid of the power of the courtiers, and Sima Rui planned to support other courtier forces and confront the royal family in order to concentrate imperial power.
In the face of Sima Rui's approach, Wang Dun and Wang Dao showed completely different attitudes. Wang Dun was angry and directly rebelled; Wang Dao still resolutely sided with Sima Rui and opposed Wang Dun. Wang Dun's first rebellion directly killed the capital Jiankang, and Wang Dao initially led the Wang family to kowtow to the emperor every day and ask him to forgive the Wang family; after Wang Dun's soldiers and horses entered the city, Wang Dao vigorously opposed his usurpation.
As a result, Wang Dun did not usurp the throne and remotely controlled the government behind the scenes. Despite this, Sima Rui, who had experienced turmoil, was shocked and frightened, and soon died, succeeding him to the throne by his son Sima Shao, the Emperor of Jinming. Wang Dun rebelled again, and as a result, he was old, and before the battle was over, he braided his braids, and this rebellion was quelled by Wang Dao, Su Jun, and others, and Wang Dun's forces were swept away.
However, Wang Dao and the other descendants of the Wang clan were not affected, and were still reused in the dynasty, and when Wang Dao died in 339 AD, all the courtiers from the emperor down to the courtiers mourned. The wisdom of the Wang family lies in the strict family style and the emergence of celebrities, which supported the trend of Chinese history in that era, even if some people took a crooked road, they could not understand the overall policy of the Wang family. Therefore, Wang Dun's two rebellions failed, but the Wang family was not implicated and has multiplied to this day. Of course, this also has a lot to do with the historical environment.